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Hunting
Eighteen weekly and four wildcard winners are headed to the Truck-Buck Shoot-Out on Sunday, July 28 at the Ag-Pro GON Outdoor Blast. If you’ve never seen a Shoot-Out, make plans to be there. A Georgia deer hunter will win a new 4X4 pickup truck from John Megel Chevy, and another hunter is going home with…
Last September, I was easing my truck down the dirt road of a west Georgia WMA after a very hot and unproductive bowhunt when I saw a group of bucks feeding in a field off the side of the road. Instantly my mind turned to their location, where they came from and how they got…
Mr. Peterson started talking, and he didn’t stop for two hours. During that two hours, I learned about the extraordinary life of a unique individual who dedicated the better part of his adult life to turkey hunting. “Tom Dixon loved turkeys and turkey huntin’ more than anything else in the world except his wife,” Mr.…
Any hope that this would be the season to turn things around for Georgia turkey hunters was dampened by yet another year of quiet mornings. Despite the pictures of success in this hunting report, overall hunters say they still aren’t hearing near the amount gobbling they used to, and most say they just don’t have…
Randy Massie, of Cumming, did what not a lot of public-land turkey hunters have done. He swapped his man card for a pink Barbie bicycle and rode 2.9 miles into Dawson Forest WMA. But you know what that joker did? He rolled a gobbler less than five minutes after fly-down time. Props. Man card returned.…
Did you grow up loving the outdoors? Did you find a passion for hunting wildlife at an early age? Most children in today’s generation do not have the chance to learn about the importance of the great outdoors and what it has to offer. Judy Catrett, of Marion County, felt passionately about this and decided…
When it all began for me in the turkey woods, things were different than they are now. Everything from guns to chokes and loads, the equipment available and even the methods of killing a gobbler seems like it’s now changed. The very first day I ventured into the woods with the goal of killing a…
Les Hutchins, of Flintstone, killed a gobbler in Chattooga County on March 31 that was nearly solid white. “I’m 56 years old, and I’ve been on that farm since I was born,” said Les. “I’ve been hunting turkeys on there since we had them, maybe 30 or 35 years, and I’ve never seen a solid white…
For this only being Thomas Blackwell’s third turkey season and only his third gobbler, Thomas accomplished something pretty rare during the first day of the 2019 Georgia turkey season. The 24-year-old hunter from Tunnel Hill killed a smoke-phase gobbler, the only one GON has heard about so far this season. On opening morning in the…
Conditions were perfect. It was cold and clear. I was leaning against a large pine, well camouflaged but a little chilly. A light breeze was blowing, and the temperature was probably in the high 30s. My knees and feet were pulled up tight against my body, and the old 12 gauge was resting across my…
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